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Advogato blog for novalisen-usmod_virguleTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:48:28 GMTMon, 23 Oct 2000 18:37:26 GMT23 Oct 2000http://www.advogato.org/person/novalis/diary.html?start=0
http://www.advogato.org/person/novalis/diary.html?start=0Last Friday, I downloaded the fonts from
http://fonts.linuxpower.org/.
<p> Today, I started going through them. I've had to reject
nearly 90% of them. Not because of quality - I haven't
looked at a single one yet. Because of license.
<p> I don't want any that I can't redistribute, because I don't
know if I'll be distributing them - I give out accounts on
this box like candy.
<p> I can't take any that are for "non-commercial" use only,
since I don't know if what I do is considered commercial (my
personal web page, that I show to possible employers?
Graphics for GPL projects?).
<p> It's a parallel of what was on the WorldForge mailing lists
last week - one of our musicians was uncomfortable with
commercial use, but we were able to convince him that it was
OK.
<p> One thing that I stressed in my posting on the subject was
that attribution would always be available - we were going
to be very good about that. (My posting was not at all
convincing to Adrian - I guess that wasn't the angle that
mattered to him). But with these fonts, I'm throwing out
the .txt files that accompany them, even though they're the
only attribution available. One reason is that I will
pretty much only be using them personally, and the only time
you attribute fonts is in the "Colophon" section of books.
But someone to whom I distribute them (not that I plan to do
this in an organized fashion - the site above handles that)
might. Also, I really don't care who created a font enough
to look it up in a text file (which usually has a name
that's like "read.me", so I would have to do tons of work to
index them to the actual fonts).
<p> At any rate, my laziness w.r.t. fonts has lead me to the
following conclusion: All media must have author info
embedded in it. MP3s do (I try to set my ID3s). There's no
excuse for other stuff not to. People are otherwise too
lazy to do attribution right. Throw in a Paypal ID, and
you've got a street-performer mini-economy. <b>I think this
is mandatory.</b>